Last week, Atelier Overijssel organized the first meeting on the exploration ‘City and Water - Twente 2075’ (‘Verkenning Stad en Water - Twente 2075’). During this meeting, we presented the results of our exploration to possible future scenarios for a climate adaptive Twente in the year 2075, assuming the most extreme climate scenarios will become reality. We took a look at what is necessary to anticipate to possible future floodings, droughts, and extreme periods of heat. In this presentation, we showed our vision on how to design our cities to be prepared for these new extremes.

Last week, De Urbanisten were invited by Vogelbescherming Nederland to talk with their urban bird advisors and by ''International Conference "PISA 2050 to present our design approach with water and how we are creating livable cities for the changing climate of the future.

De Urbanisten proudly tested the Toolbox for Soil Subsidence with the municipality of Dordrecht

After concluding the research on Subsidence and Heritage for the municipality of Gouda, De Urbanisten recently led a workshop testing the Toolbox for Subsidence with the city of Dordrecht.

This competition in Oirschot is the first within the program 'A new construction culture', and is initiated by College van Rijksbouwmeesters to stimulate biobased and nature-inclusive construction. The teams were asked to provide an urban and landscape vision for De Kemmer in Oirschot. Our urban plan includes an realistic and innovative combination of biobased and nature-inclusive housing for a healthy living environment in the sub-area.

The model of Hofbogenpark is on exhibition!

Last Tuesday Municipality of Rotterdam welcomed its citizens in the hall of Rotterdam Library to see the models of the seven new city projects, which are now part of the exhibition called 'Rotterdam is going green'. It was great to see everyone converse openly and enthusiastically about the new green Hofbogenpark plan.